Louisiana Coalition Against Racism and Nazism
Following the 1988 elections, former Louisiana Democrat David Duke switched parties in an attempt to reach higher office. Duke’s rise in Republican circles were troubling to many Louisiana public and private sector officials. Hillyer, serving as state chairman of the Louisiana Young Republicans, was among a group of ten that founded the Louisiana Coalition Against Racism and Nazism, a bipartisan group which sought to publicly counter assertions that Duke had severed ties to the Ku Klux Klan and white supremacist groups. The Coalition opposed Duke’s revisionist history and exposed a number of his ongoing associations with these groups, and as a result Duke was an unsuccessful candidate in statewide races for U.S. Senate in 1990 and governor in 1991.
Hillyer returned to journalism in 1989, serving as managing editor of Gambit, a weekly newsmagazine in the New Orleans area.
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